Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Studies of China and Chineseness

Colonial legacies in knowledge production affect the way the world is represented and understood today. However, the subject is rarely attended. The book, Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Studies of China and Chineseness: Unlearning Binaries, Strategizing Self, is about the colonial construction of intellectual perspectives of the colonized population in terms of the latter's approach to China and Chineseness in the modern world. Relying on the available oral histories of senior China scholars primarily in Asia, authors from various postcolonial and colonial sites present these multiple routs of self-constitution and reconstitution through the use of China and Chineseness as category. The revealed manipulation of this third category, romantically as well as antagonistically, is easier than straightforward self-reflection for us all to accept that, coming to identities and relations, none, even subaltern, is politically innocent or capable of epistemological monopoly. Through comparative studies, it shows a way of self-understanding that does not always require discursive construction of border or cultural consumption of any specific 'other'.
With US–China rivalry possibly lasting for decades, this book offers extremely rich and contrasting practices from the subaltern worlds for anyone in a quest for humanist alternatives. This interdisciplinary and transnational project contributes to post-colonial studies, cultural studies, international relations, China and Chinese studies, and the comparative histories of East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia.
Contents: About the EditorsAcknowledgment/li>IntroductionRearranged Colonial Relations — In the Eyes of the Colonized Self:Colonial Connections through Commerce and Culture: Revisiting China Studies in India (Reena Marwah)Exploring China Consciousness of Pre-independence India (Swaran Singh)'Majian': Formation of the Cultural Sites through Interaction between the Chinese and Arab Cultures from the Perspective of Post-colonialism (Mohsen Fergani)Comparing China Studies in a Decolonized State: A Case Study of Pakistan (Pervaiz Ali Mahesar)Colonialism, Cold War and Nanyang University's Chineseness Dilemma (Ngeow Chow-Bing)Embedded Anti-Chinese Orientations: The Dutch Occupation and Its Legacies (Harryanto Aryodiguno)China as Relational Other — In the Eyes of the Lost Self:Colonial and Post-colonial Legacies of the Intellectual History of China Studies in Korea: Discontinuity, Fragmentation and Forgetfulness (Jungmin Seo)Anglo-Chinese Studies in Post-WWII Hong Kong: The Perspectives of Colonial Languages (Mariko Tanigaki)Development of Japanese Studies in Hong Kong from the Perspectives of Chineseness and Hong Kong's Subjectivity (Chin Chun Wah)Colonial Relationality and Its Post-Chinese Consequences: Japanese Legacies in Contemporary Taiwan's Views on China (Chih-yu Shih & Raoul Bunskoek)The Imaginary of China: Sameness and Otherness from the Perspective of Macau (Cátia Miriam Costa)A Research Note of the French Legacies in Indochina's Scholarship: A Review on École française d'Extrême-Orient's Publications and Contributors on Sinology (Tran Tien Nguyen)Emerging Pluralist Relations — In the Eyes of Autonomous Self:The Anglo-Japanese Inter-imperial Relations and Ideas on the Future of the Japanese Empire (Hiroyoki Ogawa)China Studies in Aotearoa/New Zealand: Moving Beyond Postcolonialism (Pauline Keating)A British Legacy or Modern University Crisis? Chinese Studies in Australian Universities (Shirley Chan)Pondering China Studies in the Philippines as an Academic Practice and Scholarly Inquiry (Tina S Clemente)Future Agendas?Index
Readership: Supplemental readings for graduate level courses on colonialism, Asian politics, Asian history, East Asian politics, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Chinese international relations, Commonwealth, comparative politics, cultural studies, migrant studies, multi-culturalism.China;Colonial and Postcolonial Studies;Intellectual History;China and Chinese Studies;Chineseness;Politics of Identity;Multi-Culturalism;United Kingdom;Japan;China Studies;India;Majian;Arab;Pakistan;Nanyang University;Colonialism;Cold War;Anti-Chinese;Dutch Occupation;Korea;Anglo-Chinese Studies;Hong Kong;Post-World War 2;Japanese Studies;Taiwan;Macau;France;French;Indochina;Sinology;Anglo-Japanese;New Zealand;Australia;The Philippines0Key Features:This is the first systematic attempt to understand how post-colonial societies view each other as opposed to how they view the former colonizersThis book historically, culturally, and politically pre-empts China's reconnections with the world through its comprehensive Belt and Road InitiativesThe book provides numerous examples of non-binary identities and nuanced relationships to overcome international relations plagued by the quest for political correctness